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HISTORY

The Battle for Britain’s First Book of the Month Club
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- . July 9, 2025
In October 1929 thousands of members of Britain’s Book Society received a new hardback through the post. Whiteoaks, by an

Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius
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- . July 6, 2025
By the time Plato departed the court of Dionysius the Younger in 361 BC, his relations with the Syracusan autocrat

Swahili on the Road | History Today
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- . July 3, 2025
In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with former

Renaissance Florence’s Missing Bronzes | History Today
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- . June 15, 2025
It was the greatest contest in the history of art – and arguably the most mysterious too. The year was

A Royal Skeleton in the Chapel
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- . June 12, 2025
In June 1925 a sarcophagus was discovered in Dorset’s Sherborne Abbey and widely reported to be that of ‘Ethelbert’, a

Politicising Abortion in the United States
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- . May 28, 2025
Lizzie and Frank Ward started seeing each other in early 1860. They went for walks in the northern Pennsylvania woods,

Martin Crusius’ Armchair Voyage | History Today
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- . May 19, 2025
When the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople in 1453 shockwaves radiated through Christian Europe. According to Pope Pius II,

Smuggling Under the Cover of Plague
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- . May 16, 2025
In May 1720 an infected ship from the Levant arrived in Marseilles, bringing with it the last major epidemic of

The Hidden Death in the Victorian Wallpaper
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- . May 7, 2025
When it opened in 1881 the comic opera Patience was the first theatrical production in the world to be lit

Remembering South Vietnam | History Today
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- . May 1, 2025
In her 2010 memoir Tales from a Mountain City, Quynh Dao – who was 15 at the fall of Saigon